[CDsDontBurn]

So i have about 20Mb left of free disk space on my C:\ drive. Because of that, i keep getting the "low disk space" baloon pop up every few minutes or so. I know that the obvious way to remove that error message is by simply removing stuff off of the drive. However, i can't right now because of school.

my question is. How do i get the error message to stop popping up every few minutes? It doesn't have to be repeating itself to me so frequently to something i already know about. It's becoming quite annoying.

[PangingJr]

i think it's a warning dialog, not an error dialog.

it probably continues to remind you in the warning dialog until you acknowledge the reminder by providing more free disk space on the drive...
or i guess at least by disabling low disk space checks for all drives all together in your registry.

When free disk space reaches 200 megabytes (MB), you receive the following message for 10 seconds, once per session:

You are running out of disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

When free disk space reaches 80 MB, you receive the following message for 30 seconds, every four hours, twice per session:

You are running very low on disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

When free disk reaches 50 MB, you receive the following message for 30 seconds, every five minutes, until free space is above 50 MB:

You are running very low on disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

the free disk space limits and the warning intervals of Windows Vista may differ from XP

Description of the Low Disk Space Notification in Windows XP

[Dyre Straits]

20 MB? Man, you are really living on the edge.

How about running CCleaner to clean up all the temp files/folders and junk first of all? maybe will give you a few more MBs of space. Just don't download it if you haven't already got it.

[Mr cairo]

k this works but as usual at your own risk


Open regedit & follow the steps below:

1. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

2. On the Edit menu, click New, click DWORD value .

3. Name the new DWORD Value as NoLowDiskSpaceChecks

4. Right click the new DWORD Value and Modify the data value to 1.

5. Exit the registry editor and restart your computer.

if you already have the DWORD Value - NoLowDiskSpaceChecks just change it to 1

[PangingJr]

the registry setting is already included in the above Microsoft's article.

[Mr cairo]

i know but tbh its generally easier to post the actual answer than it is to post links to pages that have the answer

[CDsDontBurn]

the weirdest thing happend. i restarted, and out of nowhere, i now have 3.5Gb of free space .

i didn't do or uninstall anything either. Aside from that registry modification.

weird....

[PangingJr]

that's weird, but i've never had the low disk warning either, not because the registry setting but i seem to have a lot of drives space, so i don't know.

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

the weirdest thing happend. i restarted, and out of nowhere, i now have 3.5Gb of free space .

i didn't do or uninstall anything either. Aside from that registry modification.

weird....

Sounds like maybe your pagefile got incredibly large after extended uptime.

[CDsDontBurn]

possibly.